Developer Platform for AI Innovation

AI Platform / DEVELOPER PLATFORM

Build what’s next for your business with AI.

Workday Build is your developer launchpad for AI innovation, tapping into the unmatched depth and breadth of our core applications, data, and technology.

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Dream it. Build it. Launch it. With our versatile developer platform and rich ecosystem, your team can get to work unlocking tomorrow’s opportunities, today.

AI products and tools.

Adapt to changing business needs quickly and confidently using powerful AI and agentic tools.

Workday Marketplace.

Discover and deploy vetted agents, apps, and integrations built by our trusted partners.

Developer community.

Expand your team’s power to build by leveraging the expertise of our active and growing community.

key benefits

Create, deploy, and scale custom AI agents—fast.

Automate complex workflows and securely connect enterprise data using unified developer tools that drive innovation.

Build agents with ease.

Build, run, and surface agents, apps, and orchestrations across the enterprise at the speed of AI within trusted guardrails.

Agent & App Builder

Build anywhere with Developer Agent.

Build agents, apps, orchestrations, and more in plain language using your preferred agentic development tool.

Developer Agent

Run on the trusted Workday platform.

Use purpose-built tools, open-standards connectivity, and governance controls that keep your enterprise data accurate and reliable.

Surface everywhere at scale.

Deploy custom-built agents and apps natively across Workday, Sana, Gemini Enterprise, Microsoft Copilot, and Agent Partner Network.

Tap into a rich partner network.

Join our global partner program consisting of more than 500 trusted companies and organizations. Let's build something great together.

Partner Program

Intelligent Tools

Build it all on Workday.

Drive innovation with our intelligent tools and unified developer experience.

Custom Donate to Charity app built with Workday Build, showing Employee Assistance Program donation cards

Workday Build orchestration builder showing an automated workflow with triggers, conditions, and API actions

Workday Build agent action configuration panel for creating deterministic agentic workflows

Workday developer reviewing documents while building with agent-ready tools

Workday zero-copy and ingestion connectors for Salesforce, Snowflake, AWS, and Google Cloud data

Developer Agent prompt for creating a Workday Extend parking management app.

customer stories

Shared success. Proven impact.

Discover how our customers use Developer Platform to create custom apps, automate unique workflows, and accelerate innovation at scale.

Gain insights and inspiration.

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Reshaping How You Build

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Build Apps Anywhere with Workday

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Is Your Platform Built for Enterprise AI? 

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Build Enterprise Agents on Workday

Developer Platform FAQs.

What is Workday’s developer platform?

Workday Build is Workday’s agent-ready developer platform. It empowers organizations to build custom AI apps, agents, orchestrations and more using their agentic tools of choice, run them on the trusted Workday platform with industry-leading security and governance controls, and surface them everywhere work happens.

How can organizations extend Workday applications?

Organizations extend Workday by using Workday Extend to build custom apps and agents that run natively in Workday. These solutions can introduce new data objects, business processes, and user experiences—and can include AI-driven and agentic capabilities—all built on Workday’s security, UI, and integration frameworks, and open to any external system through APIs.

What types of custom apps can be built on Workday?

Organizations use Workday Extend to build custom apps that run natively on Workday, working directly with their people and money data. Use cases span HR, finance, and industry-specific processes—from compensation reviews and succession planning to billing and capital management, materials management, research grants, and faculty workload tracking, among many others. Explore customer use-case stories here.

Do you need to be a developer to build on Workday?

How do you build AI agents on Workday?

Building custom AI agents with Developer Agent in Workday Extend is available today to early access customers. Builders describe what they want in plain language from the agentic tools of their choice, securely connect agents to their HR and finance data through purpose-built connectors, and surface those agents across the tools and systems their teams already use.

How does Workday integrate with other systems?

Organizations build integrations on Workday using a native set of integration tools—with no separate middleware required. Workday Orchestrate, a low-code capability built into the platform, connects to payroll, ERP, finance, IT, benefits, and other systems. APIs, prebuilt connectors, and tools like Enterprise Interface Builder and Workday Studio further support moving data in real time or batch across connected systems. For AI agents, Agent-Ready Tools provide secure, governed access to HR and finance data over MCP.

How does Workday keep custom apps and AI agents secure and governed?

Because custom apps and AI agents built on Workday run natively, they automatically inherit its security model, business process controls, and audit trails—so governance and compliance are built in, not bolted on. Any AI agent—Workday, partner, or third-party—is managed through the Workday Agent System of Record, from registration to retirement.

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